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Summary: Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMISmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set What Was 323.1196 Smith 2020Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHASmith, Sherri L.
Summary: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMISmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHASmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018